IRF Symposium 2007 - Videos and Presentations
Day 1 - Data Issues
- Johannes Hahn, Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research
Welcome Address
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- C.J. van Rijsbergen, Chairman of the IRF Scientific Board, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow
Keynote
Session 1 - Data quality
- Wolfgang Thielemann, Head of Information Retrieval and Analysis, Bayer Healthcare AG
OCR errors in patent full-text documents
- R. Manmatha, Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
Effective retrieval of misrecognized scanned documents
- Linus Wretblad, CEO, Uppdragshuset AB and Joni Sayeler, Marketing Manager, Uppdragshuset AB
IPR system error!
- Birger Larsen, Associate Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science
User errors in formulating queries and IR techniques to overcome them
Session 2 - Language gap
- Barrou Diallo, Head of Research, European Patent Office
Machine Translation of Chinese patents: an overview of the challenges
- Key-Sun Choi, Professor and Head of Department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Automatic Machine Translation - Focus on Asian languages
- Minah Kim, Assistant Manager, Korea Institute of Patent Information
Cross lingual patent retrieval issues in Korean language
- Jian-Yun Nie, Professor, University of Montreal
What’s different with Chinese in cross-language IR?
Session 3 - Corpus enrichment
- Monika Hanelt, Information Manager, Agfa Graphics NV
From patent searcher’s wish list – searching in all different patent segments
- Mounia Lalmas, Professor of Information Retrieval, Queen Mary, University of London
Focusing the search process to segments
- Jane List, Information Specialist, The Technology Partnership
A picture speaks a thousand words: retrieving the information hidden In patents
- Peter Willett, Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield
Representation and searching of molecules in chemical patents
- Gerald Landl, Head of IP-rights and standards, voestalpine Stahl GmbH
Classification & industry-specific terms and keywords – Metadata
- Peter Bruza, Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology
Term semantics by association
- Daniel J. Phelps, Director, DJP Information Consulting Services, LLC
Automatic concept identification: extracting problem solved concepts from patent documents
- Gregory Grefenstette, Research Scientist, CEA List
Automatic concept identification
- Piet van Zanten, IP Information Specialist, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
The need of evaluation methodologies in practice
- Mark Sanderson, Reader in Information Retrieval, University of Sheffield
Developments in evaluation of search engines
Day 2 - Application Issues
- Henk Tomas, IP Information Specialist, IP Search Services
“50 million patents further and we are still searching like 28 years ago”
Session 4 - Tools for information professionals
- Kalervo Järvelin, Academy Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere
Issues and approaches on interactive patent retrieval: evaluation of sessions rather than queries
- Minoo Philipp, Patent Information Manager, Henkel KGaA
How do we go about searching for patent information?
- Ian Ruthven, Reader, University of Strathclyde
Interfacing with search results
- Antoine Blanchard, Patent Information Specialist, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
Handling search results
Session 5 - Tools for management & research
- Leo Wanner, Professor, ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University
- Haydn Evans, Senior IP Analyst, GE Healthcare
Patent analysis – Delivering on promises
- Matthias Hemmje, Professor, FernUniversität in Hagen
Supporting patent retrieval in the context of innovation processes by means of information visualization
- Anthony J. Trippe, Sr. Innovation Manager, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Patent mapping and visualization: what is the state of the art?
- Francisco Webber, CEO Matrixware
TempRanger Showcase
- Stephen Adams, IRF Expert Committee, Managing Director, Magister Ltd.